Month: May 2015
CDL Staff in Print – Joan Starr and John Kratz in PeerJ
Joan Starr, EZID Service Manager, and John Kratz, a CLIR/DLF Data Curation Fellow, along with a number of collaborators, published an article entitled “Achieving human and machine accessibility of cited data in scholarly publications” in the inaugural issue of PeerJ’s […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911~1949)
Four campuses (Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Diego) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911~1949) Series 1-9. I, LA, SB, SD; on the National Index to Chinese Newspapers & […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: May 2015
The major monograph distributions were for Naxos (902 titles), YBP/Ebrary DDA (284 titles), Wiley (249 titles), IEEE (178 titles), Harvard University Press (134 titles), Open Access (67 titles), and CRC Press (45 titles). For serials our major distributions were for […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Linked Author Names & Subject Facet
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on May 7, 2015 included the following new features & enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/melvyl/public/. (Note that many of these do not have […]
UC Systemwide Licensed Content Video Series
Are you curious about how electronic information resources are licensed systemwide for access by users at campuses throughout the University of California? How are resources selected, paid for, activated, monitored and assessed? How are decisions made, and who performs ongoing […]
WEST member meeting at ALA Annual in San Francisco: Please RSVP if you plan to attend
The ALA Annual WEST Member Meeting is happening on Sunday, June 28, 2015 from 1:00-2:00 pm in the Hotel Nikko San Francisco (in the Golden Gate room). Please RSVP to our poll (found here) (http://doodle.com/rcb8r8cyeb6if3a5) if you plan to attend. Please list […]
EZID Service Update: April 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities This month, the EZID Team worked behind the scenes to migrate EZID to a “cloud-based infrastructure.” While that sounds slightly make-believe, it refers to a way of provisioning information technology (IT) resources that is […]
CDL Mobile Support Policy for Systemwide Licensed Resources – Update 2015
An updated version of the CDL Mobile Support Policy for Systemwide Licensed Resources has been posted to http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/mobile.html. CDL has updated the Mobile Support Policy for Systemwide Licensed Resources. The updated policy includes the current recommendations regarding promoting and supporting […]
CDL Technical Requirements for Licensed Resources – 2015 Update
An updated version of the Technical Requirements for Licensed Resources document has been posted to http://www.cdlib.org/gateways/vendors/guidelines_technical.html. The Technical Requirements document is primarily intended for new and continuing vendors of the University of California’s systemwide licensed electronic resources, but it’s worth […]
Latest eScholarship Activity: Campus 1st Quarter 2015 Reports
Check out this quarter’s reports to discover eScholarship’s publishing profiles (and more). Here’s a listing of each campus’s most popular publications this quarter brought to you by the eScholarship team. UC Berkeley: “Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech” […]